Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-04-29
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CHI APM AN & cos,
LOCAL NEWS.

The Easter collection at the Catholic
church amounts to nearly 5000 and further
additions are confidently expected.
A. T. Stratton, secretary of the Y. NJ.
c. Anvil occupy the Baptist pulpit next
Sunday morning in the absence of the
pastor.
\ number of members of Union lodge
went down to Salisbury, Tuesday, to at
tend the funeral of Joseph W. Lovett of
that town.
Mr.. F. w. Atwood has converted the
creamery he built near the freight depot,
last season. into a tenement house for
four families.
The books of the Ladies Library asso-
citation have been removed to the new
rooms over the bank. and the association
will do business there hereafter.
The campfire and maple sugar festival
held on Wednesday evening of last week
by Russell Post. G.. \. r., netted about
$40, which will be added to the fund of
the post.
The obituary notice of Mrs. Delong in
last week issue was from our West Corn
wall correspondent; and the poetry at
the close should have been credited to O..
\. r., not 80. y. X.
Rev. John W. Chapman was ordained
at st. stephens on Friday of last week
and left for New York on Saturday even
ing. \ full report of the services has
been crowded out by other matter, but
will appear in our next issue.
The condition of the roads considered,
a good many people were in town Mon
day, and trade was lively Butter was
still lower in price, 20 cents a pound be-
ing about the top notch; Is to Is cents
were the ruling figures.
The telegraph linemen who changed
about the wires and poles in the village
last week evidently did not intend to run
any chances of the line falling over upon
the railroad Some of the braces they
put up are larger than the poles.
The listers have substantially complet-
ed their work and have lodged in the
town clerks office an abstract of the
grand list for the present year. They
will meet there on Tuesday next. NJ ay
3, to hear from any who are not satisfied
with their doings.
Rev. Mr.. Noe will preach the last SER
mon of his pastorate at the Methodist
church next Sunday. The society has
rented the Goodenough house, Seminary
street, and Rev. Mr.. Thompson, the new
pastor, will occupy it while the parson-
age is being rebuilt.
The logs which the Green Mountain
Pulp Co. have had cut in Goshen during
the winter will probably be put into the
driven down to the mills below here. The
company will do the work itself this
spring, employing professional river-driv-
ers to conduct the logs down.
Saturday forenoon the funeral of Miss
Lizzie Condor, who died at the home of
the family on Thursday, after brief
sickness, was attended from the Catholic
church, the pastor, Rev. Mr.. Lane, oflici-
ating. She was bright girl and had
many friends, large number of whom
were present at the services.
The new freight tariff of the Central
Vermont has gone into operation. II is
based upon new classification, so that
it is hard to say whether, ON the whole,
rates are lower or higher than under the
old tariff. 1t costs 81 80 more a ton to
get hay to Boston than it did before,
while potatoes are taken to the same
point at a cent a bushel less.
Mr.. Allan Calhoun is having a boom in
his new steam-heating apparatus. Al
ready some half dozen of the residents of
the village have engaged him to take out
the boilers now used to warm their hous-
es and replace them with his. lie has